Excerpt from Twenty Twenty-Minute Lessons in Bookkeeping The Language of Business The student of bookkeeping is learning to read and write the language of business. The growth or decline of a commercial enterprise is written in figures, and the man who hopes to win in the business game must learn to understand its language. Even if you never expect to be a bookkeeper, you must still understand the records kept by bookkeepers. In some form or another everyone must keep track of money, and the more intelligently he can do so, the more money will he probably have to keep track of. Bookkeeping As a profession, accountancy is becoming more and more attractive. The income tax, the increase in the size of corporations, the force of competition between business concerns - all these factors have created a demand for men with an understanding of accounts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.